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Rant of the Day: Spoilers

To the author who wrote the movie novelization I have been struggling to finish for a month: If there's a plot point in the movie that is a spoiler having to do with another character's non-human nature, it is not actually in fact subtle to have that character's POV keep musing on human nature and how humans react to things and aren't humans so very odd.

I mean, the movie had one spoiler. One! How hard is it to not spoil that one spoiler? This isn't foreshadowing, it's just being obtuse.

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I've never really understood human nature, I've tried ever since I got here and I have to say, humans are odd. Strange. Bizarre. Wholly unlike what I would expect. They're just so... human. Even in their inhuman moments they're always humaish, or humanoid, or human-like, or something similar. I don't get that. Why would anything be so fundamentally unlike a reasonable thinking feeling being?

My attempts at analysis have all led to the same result, which I can say with 99.9% confidence: humans are strange. It is deeply troubling how strange such mundane beings are able to be. You wouldn't think to look at them that they would be capable of such almost unimaginable peculiarities...

and so on, would not be a good idea if we don't want to give away that the narrator isn't human?

I had not thought of that movie since it was brought up in a thread here. I have not read the book. I still maintain that fur yvirf at the end based on the fact that va gur cnfg fur jnf erfheerpgrq ol orvat frg ba sver and what happened at the end basically amounted to ure orvat frg ba sver.

I admit that the mechanics were slightly different, but the parallel is close enough that I can't help but see it as foreshadowing.

I haven't decided if I liked the movie. I was hoping the book would give me more insight into my opinion. It has manged to make me like the movie better than I did before, but only by virtue of being aggressively mediocre. I'm about to throw it on the DNF pile.

There didn't seem to be a lot to emotionally latch onto in that film. I think I liked the second in command bad guy who lost a tooth, but I think that was just because I felt sorry for him (see the encounter where he lost the tooth), he seemed loyal enough, and he came through in the end.

The funny thing is that I, on the other hand, am quite a Spoiler Hound, I will deliberately spoil things for myself. But... when the book... keeps leading up to this one thing... that is the only interesting thing in the book... and it's doing it BADLY... it just... my brain.

I went in wanting to actually sit down and watch a movie all the way through for once.

A few minutes later:Why am I watching something this dull when there are perfectly good blogs I could be reading?

(This was a DVD rental, so I was in my living room with my laptop right next to me. On the other hand, I watched Avatar under the same conditions and my attention span was...well, not quite the whole movie, but over two hours.)

I am simply incapable of watching a film on my own. A documentary? Perhaps, if it's very interesting. A silly but very clever BBC panel show? Of course! But a film? No. I need someone with me. I don't know why. I don't talk during films. But having someone there stops me getting up and doing something else.

My beef with that particular movie was that I could predict the whole thing from the beginning. It didn't even manage cheesy awesome, which was what I was hoping for. I mean, you could tell from the first five minutes of a character being introduced if he or she would die. >_<

It's also not good characterization to make your main characters too stupid to notice such obvious hint-dropping - best to either be more subtle or to write a story where the non-humans don't have to hide. R. Daneel and R. Giskard proved they could carry an entire story by themselves, after all.

i haven't seen it either. i was quoting a comic that i don't remember which comic it was but it always comes to mind when the topic of spoilers come up. Just checked wikipedia, and the very end is the three days later bit.

the comic went like this.

person a says something, inadvertently spoiling the ending of King Kong.Person B: Dude! no spoilers!person A: seriously? you haven't seen King Kong? And isn't there a statue of limitations on spoilers? It came out decades ago!Person B: i haven't seen it yet! And now you've ruined it for me!Person A: well, let me spoil Passion of the Christ too: Jesus dies!

When Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet came out, I saw it in a theatre filled with a lot of younger teenagers. And just before the movie started I was talking about how the ending was so sad, or someone near me was, and you could just hear half the people near me turn and glare. But honestly! It's the sixth line of the prologue.

(I like some spoilers, not others, and have trouble balacing impatience and spoiler avoidance. But I work hard at not giving any, which has made getting people to watch Breaking Bad really hard.)

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